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Member Case Studies

The following Case Studies have been drawn from a wide variety of sources at local, regional, national and European level.

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Cardiff Council Active Travel Programme

Cardiff Council has been delivering a programme of Active Travel measures, with the vision to create an integrated transport system that offers safe, efficient and sustainable travel for all, and where public transport, walking and cycling provide real and desirable alternatives to car travel. The programme is a mixture of education, publicity and new infrastructure that will facilitate a shift to sustainable modes of travel.

• Keep Cardiff Moving

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Lancashire Time Credits in Chorley

Spice and The Young Foundation are working with Lancashire County Council and Chorley Council to introduce time credits to Lancashire, as a way of enabling local people to make a difference in their communities and local public services and to recognise the value of their contributions. The project will have a broad health and social care focus and will initially be based in Chorley.

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Accelerating progress to reduce health inequalities

This is a PowerPoint presentation from the WHO 2012 Business and Technical Conference in St Petersburg - it outlines a Swansea project aiming to accelerate progress in reducing health inequalities. As part of the health equity sub-network, the Health Board and the City and County of Swansea have jointly signed up with the Marmot review team on a two year accelerated programme to reduce health inequalities.The Marmot team have developed a specific framework with six key areas to accelerate action consistent with the WHO Framework for Action:

• Link to more information on Swansea

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Glasgow Equally Well Test Site Integrating Health and Urban Spatial Planning

This is a PowerPoint presentation from the WHO 2012 Business and Technical Conference in St Petersburg - it outlines a Glasgow Equally Well project - Equally Well is the Scottish Government’s action plan for tackling health inequalities. Equally Well asked community planning partners across Scotland to propose ‘test sites’ for taking new approaches to the challenge of tackling health inequalities. Glasgow submitted two successful bids for test site status in the summer of 2008. They are now part of eight test sites across Scotland

• Link to website

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Health Equity in All Policies (HEiAP): Growing Communities Strategy

This is a PowerPoint presentation from the WHO 2012 Business and Technical Conference in St Petersburg - it outlines a Belfast project Growing Communities the main strategic objectives are to - • Support healthier lifestyles • Support and develop communities • Contribute to environmental sustainability • Engage the wider community in the development of growing spaces • Provide communities with advice and guidance on growing • Encourage the development of the social economy and employability

• Link to website

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Shaping healthier neighbourhoods for children

This is a PowerPoint presentation from the WHO 2012 Business and Technical Conference in St Petersburg - it outlines a Belfast Healthy Cities Project exploring healthier neighbourhoods for Children Project: Aims and objectives • Offer children an opportunity to express their views and wishes – Photography and art chosen to facilitate range of abilities • Identify ways of engaging children in decision making process • Generate information to support policy and decision making • Create a model for engaging with children – Found to have relevance to NI curriculum

• Link to website and report

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Measuring Success: Belfast Healthy Cities Mid-Term Review

This is a PowerPoint presentation from the WHO 2012 Business and Technical Conference in St Petersburg - it outlines a Mid Way Review of Healthy Cities in Belfast the review Objectives - • Review strategic objectives within Phase V Strategic Framework • Map progress on actions within operational action plans (2009-mid 2011) • Identify additional actions delivered • Identify success factors; barriers and areas for future development

• Link to website

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Miniture Cities - Glasgow and Gothenburg

This is a PowerPoint presentation from the WHO 2012 Business and Technical Conference in St Petersburg - it outlines a film produced to compare the two cities - Previous work did not provide a comparison of one city with another, the aim was to develop the concept piloted in Miniature Glasgow to enable the two cities to be compared across a range of themes - health, lifestyle, culture and the environment.With the objective of proving that an effective comparison of two cities could be created and as an example from which a broader project comparing many European cities could be developed

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Kids Square - exploring child friendly space in Belfast city centre

This is a PowerPoint presentation from the WHO 2012 Business and Technical Conference in St Petersburg - it outlines activity aimed at exporing what makes for a child friendly space in a city centre - the programme was delivered by Belfast Healthy Cities and focused on activity in St Annes Square in the City.

• Link to website

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A Partnership for Active Living in Brighton and Hove - Brighton & Hove

This case study outlines the work that’s been, and is being, done at a strategic level to increase participation in sport and Physical activity and bring together a strong partnership for active living in the city. In 2006 the city council and primary care trust launched two new strategies; the active living strategy and the city sports strategy. Both strategies came with separate action plans containing measureable targets and ran from 2006 to 2012. The joint aim of both was “To increase participation in sports and physical activity in Brighton and Hove in order to improve health and well-being as well as creating higher levels of performance”.

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Adaptation of a local framework to produce a basic integrated assessment framework – Swansea

Following designation and the emphasis on health impact assessment, the Healthy City Working Group in Swansea looked at various options.The view of the group was that a more basic integrated tool which incorporated HIA, equality, sustainability would seem to be the most sensible approach as it could highlight areas to focus on in the statutory assessments and could save some time and resource.The result being a consultation to develop a basic integrated tool for HHEiAP that unexpectedly led to the acceleration of a local framework process. With a few amendments and by raising its profile under Healthy Cities, it will now provide the framework to promote HHEiAP endorsed by the most senior strategic partnership in Swansea for implementation.

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Asset Mapping work in Swansea

In December 2010, the Healthy City Sponsoring Group agreed to commission an ongoing project to map the current health and well being initiatives that exist in Swansea, with a focus on three of the most deprived areas within the City and County of Swansea. The project aimed to create a sustainable electronic information database, for use by professionals and the public, with up to date information on community based groups/ services/ projects/ initiatives aimed at helping people to improve their health and wellbeing.

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Asylum Seeker Mental Health Modernisation Group – Liverpool

This project researched how people in Liverpool of the Asylum Seeker/Refugee, the Irish/ Irish Traveller and the Elderly Chinese Communities access and experience mental health services. It was funded by CSIP (Care Services Improvement Partnership) managed by ICCM (Irish Community Care Merseyside) and supported by UCLAN (the ). The final report was shared with the Commissioners of Mental Health Services on Merseyside to assist in the improvement of services.This project engaged three widely differing community organisations. It tasked them both collectively and individually with working together to identify the difficulties associated with accessing mental health services.

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Care & Supportive Environments – Sunderland

This case study outlines a spectrum of options to enable people to have ‘their own front doors’ including adaptations, equipment, core and cluster schemes, sheltered housing, extra care housing, use of technology and overnight services. Promoting independence for individuals in order for them to live in their own homes for as long as possible is central to their quality of life. Sunderland has achieved much in relation to housing options and surrounding support that enables more people to continue living at home. The study outlines a range of innovative services that support people at home including prevention (home care) teams, community dementia team, overnight services and a direct Social and Healthcare workforce that is supported by the increased use of Extra care Facilities and Telecare.

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Carlisle's Grow Your City Programme – Carlisle

The Healthy Communities group of the Carlisle Local Strategic Partnership and the Carlisle Healthy City Steering group sought to develop a programme of projects, linked to the Healthy Living theme of Healthy Cities; A programme that was aimed at increasing provision and opportunities for older residents across both rural and urban areas. The programme also sought to promote intergenerational support and to use the projects as a resource to improve health literacy and awareness in younger generations.Lead partners involved in Grow Your City included Carlisle City Council, Carlisle Leisure Limited (the local leisure provider), Riverside (housing association) and Sea change learning.

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Climate Change and Health - A guide for Health Professionals – Belfast

The publication collates evidence from scientific and professional sources and examples of action currently ongoing in Northern Ireland as well as elsewhere in the UK. The research for the publication was undertaken by Belfast Healthy Cities and it has been peer reviewed by members of the intersectoral, regional Climate Change and Health Group, which is chaired by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and facilitated by Belfast Healthy Cities.It highlights how climate change impacts on health, and in particular on inequalities in health. It offers a helpful overview of the many ways in which climate change in Northern Ireland will influence health, health equity and wellbeing. It also outlines promising areas of action that can protect and strengthen health in a changing climate.

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Commissioning Innovation in Health Improvement in Liverpool PCT – Liverpool

The case study outlines Liverpool’s strategy for reducing health inequalities and includes short, medium, and long term interventions, and is based on partnership working. In its ‘Year of Health and Wellbeing’ along with reducing the impact of smoking, alcohol and poor diet, Liverpool is also dealing with the effects of wider determinants including poor housing and low income. This case study explores initiatives to improve local outcomes and to improve the health of the local population; Liverpool has invested in four longstanding major lifestyle programmes and strategies: 1. Smoke Free Liverpool 2. Alcohol Programme 3. Liverpool Active City 4. Taste for Health

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Creating health and wellbeing indicators for Glasgow – Glasgow

This case outlines work to develop and agree a set of health and wellbeing indicators for Glasgow. Over 2010, the Glasgow Centre for Population Health led a process to first build a consensus behind having a set of health and wellbeing indicators for Glasgow and to then undertake the creation of a set of indicators. The paper sets out the rationale for creating the indicators and describes the process by which the work has been progressed, outlining both the challenges and next steps. This type of approach to making health and wellbeing data accessible and understandable is perhaps an endeavour that other cities may wish to emulate and build on.

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Delivering the Smoke Free City – Newcastle

This paper describes how the Smoke Free Project Office in Regulatory Services and Public Protection, Newcastle City Council, worked with partners to implement the Smoke Free Legislation in Newcastle upon Tyne. The Smoke Free Project was funded by the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) and the Department of Health and in total ran from January 2007 to 31st March 2008. The Project consisted of two parts: compliance work consisting of intensive support and advice for businesses in targeted areas of the City (the NRF areas) in Newcastle in preparation for the introduction of the comprehensive smoke free legislation; and smoking cessation work in the NRF areas. The Project was a partnership initiative between Newcastle City Council and the Primary Care Trust (PCT).

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Designing Street for Different Users - Brighton and Hove

This study outlines a scheme to transform New Road and enable the street to fulfil its potential as an urban space.The case study presents the rationale and the approach adopted. It suggests that the public perceptions of a street can be changed dramatically and the use of space significantly influenced by redesign. The experience in New Road also suggests that pedestrians, vehicles and cyclists can share one space without conflict and that the move away from a traditional segregated design is a key part of engendering greater civility.The redesigned space has a shared surface featuring minimal visual segregation of space, reduced clutter and generous allocations of outdoor private and public seating.

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Developing Healthy Public Policy in Stoke-on-Trent - Stoke-on-Trent

This paper was written on behalf of the Stoke on Trent Healthy Public Policy Advisory Group. The Advisory group is a made up of a team of multi-agency experts who have a passion for improving health in Stoke on Trent alongside expertise in either public policy and/or urban planning locally. The purpose of the paper is to share the rationale and approach to Healthy Public Policy in Stoke-on-Trent, what has worked well, the on-going challenges and some of the lesson learnt from taking this approach. The goal of Healthy Public Policy in Stoke-on-Trent is to support partners and stakeholders across the City to contribute the reduction of health inequalities. .

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Doorstep Sport - Changing Lives, Changing Communities - Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent

Launched in January 2007, StreetGames delivers doorstep sport; that is sport and dance at the right time, the right place and the right price, and in the right style to engage young people and make sport accessible to those who live in the most deprived areas in the UK. StreetGames is a national partner to Sport England, the national sports council, and is delivered via a network of local providers in 120 areas across the UK. All projects are locally funded, locally controlled and locally managed– thus providing a great example of community engagement and empowerment.

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Evaluation of Glasgow GRAND – Glasgow

This case study provides evaluation feedback from Glasgow’s ‘GRAND week’.GRAND (shorthand for Getting Real about Alcohol ‘N’ Drugs) week takes place each September andisa citywide multi-component initiative that brings together a broad range of statutory, voluntary and community partners in order to: Raise awareness and increase knowledge of alcohol and drugs issues and services; Get communities involved in tackling alcohol and drugs; and Build partnerships and networks between communities, services and organisations.

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Get into Reading Project – Carlisle

Get Into Reading (GIR) is a social inclusion project which aims to improve wellbeing, build community cohesion, and extend reading pleasure, through shared reading of high quality literature. From 2001 to 2008 it was run by the Reader Centre, based at the University of Liverpool. By 2008 the organisation had outgrown the university and became an independent company and registered charity. The Get into Reading pilot was led in partnership by Carlisle City Council and the Croftlands Trust, an organization aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing. They seek to do this through the provision of a suitable home environment and skilled training and supervision thus enabling clients to develop their mental, physical and spiritual capacity.

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Getting closer to our communities – Sunderland

Sunderland identified that people were being divorced from the decision making processes affecting their communities outlining the need to re-engage with people so that they are able to have a say in decisions and make public organisations respond to local needs. Surveys suggested that while people were happy with services provided at a local level, they do not see the work of the Council in such a positive way. The case study focuseson the Community Leadership Programme which involves both Councillors and Officers in training and development programmes to ensure that there is a consistent “One Council” approach to the public.

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Getting out and about easily – Newcastle

In 2010, Newcastle City Council decided to develop a Movement and Access Plan for the city. This offered the first opportunity for transport planners, people representing vulnerable people and health policy staff to work together to ensure health and health equity is at the heart of planning for transport and the physical environment. This case study outlines the process of delivering a planning event.The event helped to build shared understanding of issues faced by people in respect of getting out and about. It helped those involved in transport and urban planning to build relationships with a range of different stakeholders and understand their experiences of getting out and about. The Movement and Access Plan is being developed through the materials used on the day and the ideas that participants came up with.

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Glasgow Equally Well Test Site – Glasgow NEW

'Equally Well' is a report of the Scottish Government’s Taskforce on Health Inequalities which called for the creation of test sites to explore innovative ways of working. The Glasgow test site is trialling an approach to reduce health inequalities, tackle the obesogenic environment and improve well-being by incorporating health into planning policy and practice. The Test Site focuses on 7 projects across the city. A large proportion of the work is based around the development of applicable toolkits/best practice guides for planners and related professionals. This work focuses heavily on the role of place-making as a means of addressing health inequalities, with the toolkits/best practice guides being developed to assist in area based approaches to neighbourhood development.

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Glasgow Proposal for 20 mph zones – Glasgow

On 14 August 2009, the Executive Committee of Glasgow City Council endorsed the recommendations of the Glasgow Health Commission, which was established in 2008 by the Leader of Glasgow City Council. The Health Commission was tasked with taking a fresh look at the city’s health challenges and come up with proposals on how to tackle them. Recommendation 6 of the Health Commission advocates: ‘The introduction of mandatory 20 mph zones in residential areas, especially those near schools. There is clear evidence that this will save young lives, reduce the severity of injuries and prevent accidents in our more deprived neighbourhoods. This case study outlines the initial steps and challenges in implementing the proposed 20mph zones.

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Good for regeneration, good for health – Belfast

This case study outlines a project, funded by the EU through the Urbact II fund, aimed to use Health Impact Assessment (HIA) methodology in a new way to generate indicators that can be used to monitor the impact of regeneration on health and wellbeing. A particularly novel aspect of the indicator set developed is that it includes a subset of ‘headline’ indicator, which pair mainstream indicators with ones that monitor impacts on inequalities. The project was developed as a close partnership led by Belfast Healthy Cities and Belfast City Council, with the five Belfast Area Partnerships tasked with leading regeneration in the five sectors of the city, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Public Health Agency and Northern Ireland Housing Executive.

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Health Equity in All Local Policies - Belfast Approach – Belfast

This case study presents the Belfast approach to ensuring Health Equity in all Local Policies (HEiALP)the study summarises how the Health in All Policies (HiAP) concept originated in Europe, but the Government of South Australian adapted the concept to meet the needs of the federal state and to address targets within South Australia’s Strategic Plan. The case study identifies the initial phase of development outlining how HEiALP is a policy mechanism through which health works with other sectors to ensure that, while contributing to economic, social and environmental development, their policies also contribute to health and wellbeing.

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Health Equity in All Policies - Travel Plan Framework – Belfast

Belfast Healthy Cities (BHC) has developed a Health Equity in all Policies framework that allows organisations to systematically look at strategic policies and assess them against the determinants of health with a view to identifying gaps and integrating health equity issues. It is within this context that BHC has supported travel managers and Health Improvement staff within Health and Social Care Trusts throughout Northern Ireland to develop a travel plan framework that incorporates health equity issues. This work also fits under the remit of the regional intersectoral Climate Change and Health Group facilitated by BHC.

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Health Inequity within the City – Sunderland

This case study outlines how the local Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee choose Health Inequalities as a review topic to investigate and make recommendations. At its meeting on 17th June 2009 following discussions regarding the work programme the Committee in light of the city’s designation as a member of the Healthy Cities Network agreed to a study into the issues around tackling health inequalities. The title of the review was ‘Tackling Health Inequalities in Sunderland’ this case study outlines the rationale, key aims, methods of investigation and findings from the review and presents how the Health and Well Being Scrutiny Committee has taken evidence from a variety of sources to assist in the formulation of a balanced range of recommendations.

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Healthy Urban Planning in Stoke-on-Trent - Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent’s Healthy City Partnership is led by the Local Strategic Partnership (Health and Well-Being sub-group), together with the City Council and NHS Stoke-on-Trent. Healthy Urban Planning and Design is one of the core themes and priorities for the Partnership. This case study outlines work locally to develop a Healthy Urban Planning Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) which will embed health in all aspects of the planning processes including plan making and determination of applications; and a commitment to carrying out Health Impact Assessments for large scale major planning applications, policies and master planning work.

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Influencing the development of an Integrated Partnership for Cardiff – Cardiff

This case study outlines the development of an Integrated Partnership Strategy. In 2009 an extensive partnership review was undertaken by Cardiff Council that demonstrated that a complex web of partnership and working groups were responsible for planning and delivering services across Cardiff. It was agreed that an Integrated Partnership Strategy (IPS) would be developed bringing together the components of the Community Strategy; Health, Social Care & Wellbeing Strategy; Children & Young People’s Plan and the Community Safety Strategic Assessment. Agreement was reached by all Partnership Boards and Cardiff Council’s Executive to enable a collective vision and high level priorities for the city to be determined.

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Is Anybody Out There - Communicating in a Healthy City - Brighton and Hove

This case study outlines the development of a city wide communications strategy starting with the rationale that ‘Without a communications strategy, we wouldn’t be able to work cross-sectorally; it would be difficult to get political commitment; we would lack visibility, credibility and profile. Crucially, it would be difficult to make the connection between what the programme was doing and what people perceive as having the biggest impact on their health.’ The communications strategy recognises that everyone has a role in creating a Healthy City and builds on two core areas; raising public interest and involvement and working strategically with partners.

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Mapping Sustainable Communities – Sunderland

The case study explores mapping work carried out to understand levels of accessibility spatially across the city, reaching services either on foot or by using public transport.The work examines accessibility levels both on foot and by public transport throughout the city in order to provide baseline evidence to influence land use and transport planning, and to help inform and focus funding to locations of maximum need. The results provide an overview of facility provision across the city, from which it was possible to identify and concentrate upon specific issues. The study identifies a number of key achievements as a result of the mapping work.

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My Health Matters - Stoke-on-Trent

The “My Health Matters” project has been designed specifically to help build partnership with statutory healthcare providers, the local voluntary and community sector to help meet the challenge of increasing physical activity levels and healthy eating in targeted areas within Stoke-on-Trent. The project aims to develop and to evaluate a community-led intervention to reduce health inequalities by increasing physical activity and promoting healthier eating as defined by community members themselves. The project focuses on areas within three deprived wards in Stoke-on-Trent each is similar with regards to socio-economic status.

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NEETs – The Swansea Story

Responding to the Welsh Government’s flagship youth policy ‘Extending Entitlement’ (2000), the City and County of Swansea and Careers Wales West developed a ‘Keeping in Touch (KIT) Strategy’. This was to clearly document that, to the best of their knowledge they know the location of all young people aged 16-18 years in Swansea and whether they were in education, employment or training.

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Neighbourhood Partnership - Tackling Substance Misuse – Swansea

A detailed substance misuse needs assessment (SMNA) was undertaken over four months involving the police, social services, Children and Young People Partnership, drug agencies and local health services. The SMNA informed the decision making of a local service board project with strategic political and senior executive ownership. A comprehensive approach was taken based on need and evidence for effective interventions. Substantial progress has been made through an integrated approach to working and engaging with geographically at risk communities in five months based on an underlying SMNA.

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One Brighton - A new way of living - Brighton and Hove

This case study focuses on ‘One Brighton’ an award winning development in the heart of the city and is a mixed use development of 172 residential units, 1,206 sq. m of office space and 972 sq. m of community space... This development was not promoted or built as a healthy urban planning demonstration project but it incorporates many desirable features and reflects the city priorities of sustainable and healthy development. In delivering an exemplary sustainable development this scheme also provides many desirable factors that contribute to meeting Healthy Urban Planning principles. Brighton and Hove are interested to explore further this overlap between very sustainable developments and those that contribute to health and well-being as part of Phase V.

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Shaping healthier environments for children – Belfast

This project engaged with 9-11 year old children in the Lenadoon and Suffolk areas of west Belfast, to give them an opportunity to think about their local neighbourhood and identify using photos what they like and don’t like. The photos were used to develop scrapbooks, collages and electronic presentations that not only described the environment the children experienced, but also what they would like to change to make the environment work for them. The project intended to: 1) allow children to think critically about their environment and their expectations for it, and 2) develop guidance on shaping healthy urban environments for children.

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Sunderland Way of Working (SWOW) – Sunderland

This case study explores the Sunderland Way of Working (SWOW). SWOW was set up by the Local Authority to create a commissioning organisation, create and transition all services to the four functional areas of the new business operating Model (Strategic Services, Shared Services, Customer Services and Service Delivery).As part of the review process Health Inequalities was chosen as a Service Assessment area.The scope of the review was to test the Service Assessment Methodology to ensure that Health Inequalities could and should be included as an aspect of the Service Review model to ensure service effectiveness / ineffectiveness in tackling health inequalities could be measured and ultimately improved through the recommendations for the services that are made.

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Tackling Inequalities - using NHS Health Checks in the workplace - Brighton and Hove

This case study outlines the innovative use of NHS Health Checks. NHS Health Check is part of a national initiative identifying and managing cardiovascular risk in people aged 40-74. In Brighton and Hove, Brighton & Hove City Council is working in partnership with NHS Brighton and Hove PCT to help employers promote staff health and wellbeing and reduce sickness absence. The outreach NHS Health Check service targets men and women over 40 years in manual/routine work or living in more socio-economically deprived areas of Brighton & Hove. The service is being delivered in workplaces and in community settings in neighbourhood renewal areas.

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Tackling Inequalities and Promoting Wellbeing - A Guide for Politicians – Belfast

Elections for local councillors in Northern Ireland took place in May 2011 and have resulted in an influx of new councillors. With the elections in mind, Belfast Healthy Cities have developed a publication called Tackling Inequalities and Promoting Wellbeing – ‘A Guide for Political Representatives’. This has been produced by a regional intersectoral group including Councillors. The publication aims to demonstrate how local government makes a significant contribution to health and wellbeing, and outlines directions for action that can assist Councillors to take a lead role in creating healthy, sustainable communities.

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Telehealth in Sunderland – Sunderland

This case study explores the innovative and creative development of health related services and systems. Telehealth builds on the success of the city’s Telecare provision, which forms part of Sunderland’s vision for care across the city, and plays a central role in its preventative healthcare model. The local authority has now extended the service to 23,000 people across the city to date. This preventative approach is working to support individual choice and independence, and help people to remain safe and secure in their homes. Equipment is provided to support the user in their home and tailored to meet their needs. Telehealth is designed to complement health care by monitoring vital signs and transmitting the data to a response centre or clinician's computer where it is monitored against parameters set by the user’s clinician.

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Udecide - Children and young people spending public money – Newcastle

At a local level, the Newcastle Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership (now the Newcastle Children’s Trust) adopted a Participation Strategy for young people in 2005. This was developed in partnership with Investing in Children and reflects a commitment that participation in decision making must lead to change is it is meaningful, and that children and young people themselves must be the arbiters of whether change has taken place. This case study describes the creative use of Participatory Budgeting (PB) with Children and Young People. PB is a concept developed in Brazil that involves local communities in making decisions about resource allocation as a means to ensure that communities are empowered, decisions are made in an open and transparent manner and that difficult decisions that are taken have community support.

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Using Health Impact Assessment and health indicators to ensure regenerations adds value to health – Belfast

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) has been extensively used to assess the potential health impacts of regeneration proposals. This case study describes an innovative way of utilising the HIA approach to identify indicators. The project utilised HIA in a novel way, to ensure indicators for regeneration and health are firmly based on evidence of how regeneration affects health, and also how health issues affect regeneration and society as a whole, for example through economic aspects. The partnership approach taken enabled all partners to take ownership of the indicators and has contributed significantly to commitment to develop the project further. The framework itself constitutes the first indicator set focused on regeneration and health, and has highlighted a range of data needs, while providing a rationale for collecting data currently not available.

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Working with communities to reduce health inequalities – Newcastle

Newcastle Partnership, the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) for the city, provides a supportive local policy framework for community engagement and empowerment. The Community Empowerment Framework gives weight and significance to engagement and empowerment work in Newcastle and this has led the work to be regarded as a core activity, rather than being viewed as an additional activity. Newcastle Partnership recognises that community empowerment contributes to improved quality of services, greater community cohesion and social inclusion, thriving democracy and enhanced community capacity and learning. This study presents a number of projects working with communities for example -Community Action on Health which was established to give communities, especially those “seldom seen, seldom heard”, a stronger voice in health care decision-making.

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